Numbering-machine.



No. 677,144. Patemd :une 25', mm.

F. SANDERS.

NUMBEBING MACHINE.

(Application led July 17, 1900.)

(No Model.)v

Nirnn STATES PATENT union.

FRANK SANDERS, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO IYETTER NUMBER- ING MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE AND OAMDEN, NEYV JERSEY.

NUMBERING-NIACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,144, dated J' une 25, 1901. Application filed J'uly17, 1900. Serial No. 23,886. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: A cavity a is also formed in the frame A to 55 Beit known that I, FRANK SANDERS, a citireceive the stem CZ' of the plunger, said stem zen of the United States, residing in the borhaving a free sliding t in the cavity. The

ough of Brooklyn, city ot' New York, State of outer wall of the frame is slotted, as at a2,

New York, have invented certain new and and the partition-wall between the cavity d useful Improvements in Numbering-Maand thespaceinwhichthe numbering-wheels 6o chines, of which the following is a specificaare received is slotted or cut away, as at a3, tion, reference being had to the accompanyin line with the slot a2. A pin D is passed ing drawings, forming a part hereof. through the slots and through the stem d' of 1o This invention relates to consecutive-num the plunger into a hole e in the swinging bering machines or other machines of like pawl-frame E, therhole e being elongated suf- 65 character in which the numbering-wheels or iciently, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. other printing devices are advanced through 2, to permit free movement of the parts, so the operation of a plunger which is actuated that the pawl-frame swings as the plunger is by the platen of the printing-press or otherreciprocated. The pin D may have a snug Wise. fit in the stem of the plunger or may be 7o The object of the invention is to simplify threaded to -engage the same, as shown in the construction and reduce the cost of manu- Fig. 3, and is provided with a head, as d2, so

n facture of such machines and at the same that it can be withdrawn readily when dezo time to increase their durability and eisired.

ciency. It will be observed that the connection of 75 The invention is particularly concerned the plunger with the swinging pawl-frame by with the plunger, its support in the frame of means of the pin D permits the parts to be the machine, and its connection with the deformed with a minimum of machining and to vices which act upon the printing-wheels, be assembled easily, and also permits the and will be more fully described and claimed plunger to be removed easily whenever de- 8c hereinafter,with reference to the accompanysired by simply withdrawing the pin. The ing drawings, in whichpin also serves by contact of its head with Figure l is a plan View of a machine which the upper end of the slot d2 to limit the upgo embodies the invention. Fig. 2 is an end eleward movement of the plunger. Furthervation thereof, partly broken out to show demore, if the stem of the plunger is cylindrical 8 5 tails of construction; and Fig. 3 is a side elethe pin by its engagement with the slots holds vation thereof, also broken out to show dethe plunger from turning. The frame itself tails of construction. Fig. 4C is a section on may be either cast or milled out to receive the plane indicated by the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. the mechanism with a minimum expenditure The numbering-machine in which the inof time and labor. 9o vention is represented as embodied is adapted A I claim as my invention* to be locked in the form with the type and In a numbering Inachine, the combinacomprises a frame or case A, within which tion with a frame or case having in its end a 4o the numbering-wheels B are mounted to rocavity with a slotted outer wall and a slotted tate upon a shaft O. (Shown in dotted lines inner wall, printing-wheels mounted upon a 95 in Fig. 2.) In the machine shown the numfixed axis in said frame or case, and a pawlbering-wheels B, each of which is provided frame, of a plunger mounted in the cavity in witharatchet-wl1eelh,areactuatedbyaswingsaid frame or case and movable with respect ing pawl-frame E, which is mounted to swing to said printingwheels and a pin passed upon the shaft C and is provided with pawls laterally through said plunger and the slotted E to engage the ratchet-wheels?? in the usual walls of said cavity and engaging the pawlmanner. The plunger D, which is adapted frame. i to receive the pressure of the platen of the This speciiication signed and witnessed 5o press or to be actuated in any other suitable this 13th day of July, A. D. 1900.

manner, is seated upon a spring d, by which FRANK SANDERS. it is lifted when the pressure is relieved, the In presence ofspring being received and supported within VILLIAM VENZ,

a cavity d, formed therefor in the frame A. A. N. JESBERA.. 

